About the day » Wednesday October 17, 1787Calender converter

• van der Ende, Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1787)
• Adrianus Vandepoel, Cappellen Vlaams Brabant Belgie († 1864)
• Clara Maria DE COCK, Niel, Antwerpen, Belgium († 1799)
• Antonius Logt, van de, Cuijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Caroline Elizabeth Cockayne († 1860)
• Aafje Petten, Blokzijl, Steenwijkerland, Overijssel, Nederland († 1859)
• Arnoldus Verbunt, Tilburg
• Adam Jacobs, Chester, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1872)
• Adrianus van Dun, Goirle († 1830)
• Anna Maria van den Borne, Hulsel

• Gerritjen (Enneken) Jansen (56), Doesburg, Gelderland, Nederland
• Harmen Greupink (57), Winterswijk (GE, NLD)
• Janna van Hanswijk (0)
• Christoffer Berends, Delfzijl
• Adrianus van der Lans, Loosduinen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Elisabeth NIJSSEN (75), Rotem,, Limburg, België
• Agatha Dobbelaere (0), Lovendegem
• Joost de KOEIJER, Zaamslag,zl, Nederland
• Jan Kool (20), Capelle ad IJssel
• ELIJSABETH HAIJES Elisabeth Hajes Lijsbet Haies (m. Westerhuis) 5GGM (67), Jelsum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Netherlands

• 1768 » Sophie von Dönhoff, morganatic spouse by bigamy to King Frederick William II of Prussia († 1838)
• 1779 » José Andrés Pacheco de Melo, Argentine statesman and priest (d. approx. 1820)
• 1779 » Louis Charles, French prince of the blood († 1808)
• 1780 » Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, ninth Vice President of the United States († 1850)
• 1781 » Johann Friedrich Meckel, German anatomist († 1833)
• 1784 » Fructuoso Rivera, first president of Uruguay († 1854)
• 1785 » Christen Smith, Norwegian scientist († 1816)
• 1792 » John Bowring, English polyglot and governor of Hong Kong († 1826)
• 1797 » Juan Lavalle, Argentine politician (d.1841)
• 1803 » Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician († 1876)

• 1757 » René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
• 1776 » Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
• 1780 » William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
• 1781 » Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke, English admiral (b. 1705)
• 1786 » Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1723)
• 1806 » Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian commander and politician, Governor-General of Haiti (b. 1758)
• 1836 » Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (b. 1782)
• 1837 » Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1778)
• 1849 » Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1810)
• 1868 » Laura Secord, Canadian war heroine (b. 1775)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• May 25 » After a delay of 11 days, the United States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in Philadelphia after a quorum of seven states is secured.
• June 20 » Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the 'United States'.
• August 6 » Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• October 1 » Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
• October 29 » Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
• December 7 » Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

The temperature on October 17, 1787 was about 10.0 °C.